Focusing on assessment and standards based grading in a middle school science classroom...with some dog training on the side.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Greetings!

Hello anyone and everyone!

This is my first attempt at blogging. I read a lot of blogs, comment sometimes, and thought it would be good to jump in and give it a try. The focus of this blog will mostly be on assessment and standards based grading. I will have some asides as I talk about working with my middle school science students. In addition, I do some amateur hunting dog training and have found a great deal of parallels between training dogs, teaching students, assessment, grading, and learning in general.

The first thing I would like to do is to go through the process I have used to set up my class and grading practices in a standards based atmosphere.

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I am a 7th grade Life Science teacher in north central Wisconsin. One of my biggest interests is investigating how quality assessment can be the driver of great curriculum, instruction, and ultimately learning.